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		<title>Filichia&#8217;s Features: Welcome to the Junior Theater Festival, Part 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday night, January 14, 2012. Every participant at the Junior Theater Festival has seen at least eight segments compete with MTI’s Jr. musicals.  But eight is not enough. The ballroom at the Atlanta Renaissance Waverly is packed with students, teachers, parents and well-wishers who want to see more. Now they’ll see production numbers that won’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NBC&#8217;S &#8216;SMASH&#8217; MAKE A MUSICAL, School #5 &#8211; Wheaton High School, Maryland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wheaton High School Silver Spring, MD Reporter: Cindy Ripley, iTheatrics Senior Education Associate, Resident Master Teacher January 26, 2012 A strong work ethic is not something I think about regularly, but it was the theme of my “NBC’s ‘Smash’: Make a Musical” visit at Wheaton High School in Silver Spring, MD. It all started with the cab [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filichia&#8217;s Features: Welcome to the Junior Theater Festival, Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, Jan. 14 at 1:30 p.m. at the Junior Theater Festival. The students from all 63 schools and after-school musical theater programs have completed their presentations. If the kids were sky-high before their performances, they’re even more excited now. While a comparative few felt are mourning the lines they flubbed or the cues they missed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NBC&#8217;s &#8216;SMASH&#8217; MAKE A MUSICAL, School #4: Place Bridge Academy, Denver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[School #4: Place Bridge Academy Denver, Colorado REPORTED BY: Timothy Allen McDonald, Founder and CEO iTheatrics January 25, 2012 In scouting for Denver schools for the NBC’s ‘SMASH’ MAKE A MUSICAL program, in which we are building musical theater programs in underserved schools nationwide, we contacted our local Denver project advisor, Gillian McNally. Gillian is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filichia Features: Welcome to the Junior Theater Festival, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we last left the 63 casts of students participating in this year’s Junior Theater Festival, they were off to one of seven rooms. In each, they’d perform what could be called junior versions of Broadway Jr. musicals: up to 15 minutes worth of material that would show them at their best. Here in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NBC&#8217;s &#8216;SMASH&#8217; MAKE A MUSICAL, School #3: W.H. Oliver Middle School, Nashville</title>
		<description><![CDATA[W.H. Oliver Middle School, Nashville, TN January 24, 2012 Reporter: Cindy Ripley, iTheatrics Senior Education Associate, Resident Master Teacher Close up on an urban middle school in the heart of &#8216;Music City USA’, better known as Nashville, TN. A school of 800 students from 59 countries that never had the world of musical theater in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mtiblog.mtishows.com/nbcs-smash-make-a-musical-school-3-w-h-oliver-middle-school-nashville</link>
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		<title>NBC&#8217;s &#8216;SMASH&#8217; MAKE A MUSICAL, School #2: Independence Charter School, Philadelphia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Independence Charter School, Philadelphia, PA January 20, 2012 Reporter: Cindy Ripley, iTheatrics Senior Education Associate, Resident Master Teacher Day #2 of the NBC’s ‘SMASH’ MAKE A MUSICAL program and I am still digesting the paradox of yesterday&#8217;s NYC School visit (see Tim&#8217;s blog 1/19). In a school that is &#8220;coming back&#8221; after one of our nation’s most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mtiblog.mtishows.com/nbcs-smash-make-a-musical-school-2-independence-charter-school-philadelphia</link>
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		<title>NBC&#8217;s &#8216;SMASH&#8217; MAKE A MUSICAL, School # 1:  In the Shadows of the World Trade Center</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leadership and Public Service High School, New York, NY January 19, 2012 Reported by: Tim McDonald, Founder and CEO, iTheatrics We launched our first NBC’s ‘SMASH’ MAKE A MUSICAL program in our hometown, New York City. This initiative creates sustainable musical theater programs in underserved schools nationwide.  We are starting with twenty schools in twenty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mtiblog.mtishows.com/nbcs-smash-make-a-musical-school-1-in-the-shadows-of-the-world-trade-center</link>
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		<title>Filichia Features: Welcome to the Junior Theater Festival Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing’s officially happened yet. It’s 7:40 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 14, and the stage of the vast MTIShowSpace Theater at Atlanta’s Hotel Renaissance Waverly is empty. But the house itself is filling up, en route to accommodating nearly 3,000 people in its seats. Conventions take place on a regular basis this enormous ballroom. But there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mtiblog.mtishows.com/filichia-features-welcome-to-the-junior-theater-festival-part-1</link>
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		<title>Peter Filichia Joins MTI as a Guest Columnist with &#8220;Filichia Features&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are thrilled to announce that celebrated theater critic PETER FILICHIA is joining MTI as a guest columnist for the MTI Marquee!  &#8220;Filichia Features&#8221; will showcase original weekly articles on all-things musical theater with the same patented wit and insight that has made Peter a staple among theater fans around the country.  Be on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mtiblog.mtishows.com/peter-filichia-joins-mti-as-a-guest-columnist-with-filichia-features</link>
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		<title>Junior Theater Festival SMASHES Atlanta!  Check Out the Media Coverage and Our Photos and Videos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta, GA was another SMASH hit and we wanted to share a round-up of the national coverage this fabulous event received as well as the amazing photos and videos captured throughout the weekend.  Here are three articles from our friends at Playbill, BroadwayWorld and Theatermania, followed by links to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mtiblog.mtishows.com/junior-theater-festival-smashes-atlanta-check-out-the-media-coverage-and-our-photos-and-videos</link>
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		<title>VIDEO: Feed Your Theatre Need!  Watch LITTLE SHOPS&#8217; Seymour Krelborn&#8217;s Screentest for the MTIshows iPhone App Commercial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Download the FREE app Watch the extended commercial with the full cast of characters]]></description>
		<link>http://mtiblog.mtishows.com/video-feed-your-theatre-need-watch-little-shops-seymour-krelborns-screentest-for-the-mtishows-iphone-app-commercial</link>
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		<title>NBC and iTheatrics Announce Philanthropic Initiative to Bring Sustainable Musical Theater Programs to the Nation’s Underserved Schools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“NBC’s ‘Smash’: Make a Musical” Set to Launch This Month in 20 Schools in 20 U.S. Cities NBC and iTheatrics are teaming up for the national launch of  “NBC’s ‘Smash’: Make a Musical,” a philanthropic initiative that will help create sustainable musical theater programs in underserved schools nationwide. Timed with NBC’s launch of the new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mtiblog.mtishows.com/nbc-and-itheatrics-announce-philanthropic-initiative-to-bring-sustainable-musical-theater-programs-to-the-nation%e2%80%99s-underserved-schools</link>
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		<title>Local Communities are Buzzing about the Junior Theater Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Local communities around the country are buzzing about groups in their areas who are attending the Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta. The Ypsilanti Courier published a FANTASTIC feature story celebrating South Arbor Academy’s first trip to the festival. The Herald Times Reporter ran a story about the Dare to Dream’s trip to the festival.  Dare [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mtiblog.mtishows.com/local-communities-are-buzzing-about-the-junior-theater-festival</link>
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		<title>NBC&#8217;s SMASH to Sponsor 2012 Junior Theatre Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A thundering chorus of 3,000+ Broadway stars, students and teachers will lock step and raise their voices and hearts in song during the 2012 Junior Theater Festival, a monumental celebration of on-stage and backstage excellence happening January 13 &#8211; 15, 2012 in Atlanta, GA, it was announced today by Theater of the Stars president Nick [...]]]></description>
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